I knew him for the younger of the two Chinese--the man
called Chen Li.
"This discovery, of course, made us aware that we were now face to face
with a new development. We were not long in arriving at a conclusion about
that. Chang Li had found out that his friend had become possessed of these
valuable--he might have discovered the matter of the diamond, or of the
bank-notes or both--how was immaterial. But we were convinced, putting
everything together, that he had made this discovery, had probably laid in
wait for Chen Li as he returned home that night, had run a knife into him
as he went up the garden, had dragged the body into the shrubbery,
possessed himself of the loot, and made off. And now we were face to face
with what was going, as we knew, to be the stiffest part of our work--the
finding of Chang Li. We set to work on that without a moment's delay.
"I have told you that Purvis and I have a pretty accurate knowledge of
Chinamen; we have both had deep and intimate experience of them and their
ways. I, personally, know a good deal of the Chinese Colony in London: I
have done business with Chinamen, both in London and South Africa, for
years.
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